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BPOV
I had been running aimlessly for countless hours, nonstop. Whenever I thought about the boy I pushed myself harder, to make me not think. I didn't really concentrate, but I knew I was going north, that was about it.
I couldn't shake my guilt, I had left without a word, no explanation, no note, I hadn't even told Jasper anything, and I was grateful he hadn't followed me. I needed some time to myself.
I thought about what Esme's face had been like when Jasper told her I was gone. There would have been shock first, then doubt, she would have denied that I would do such a thing, and then sadness when she realised that I really was gone.
I shook my head of all thoughts; I would feel more guilt later though.
For the first time in hours, I stopped running and looked at my surroundings. I recognised it admediently.
I was in Alaska.
I smiled to myself. Of course. My legs would always take me here when I had nowhere else to go to.
I was in front of the biggest house in the town Cara, Alaska. I knew that there were five bedrooms, three bathroom and more TVs than needed in a house for a family of six. I knew that there was burn mark in the living room floor from the previous owner.
I knew all this because this house had been part of my life for around ninety years.
I pulled out the spare key I always kept in my pocket and let myself in. I didn't know if the owners were awake, so I sent a thought to them instead.
Wake up sleepyheads! Guess who's making a visit?
Four seconds later I was swept into a bear hug that would have crushed me if I had been human.
'Em, come on put her down.' Rose said coming up behind him in a pink silk dressing robe.
Emmet dropped me and I gave Rosalie a gentler hug.
'What happened honey?' Rosalie asked, concerned. 'Esme called saying you had run away.'
I sighed, I knew Esme would have phoned everybody to make sure if I was with them.
I sat down on the sofa and Emmet and Rosalie sat on the loveseat. I braced myself and began.
'There was this new guy at school...' I started.
'Awwwwww. Has Bella got a crush?' Emmet asked in a little voice. He as such a joker. But right now it was just irritating.
Before I could move Rosalie had smacked the back of his head and told him to behave.
I smiled. Em and Rose were the perfect couple, and I knew they were very happy. But I couldn't help feel jealous because they each had somebody. I had my family, but that wasn't the same as somebody you really loved.
I did my best to swallow these feeling and told them everything from the begging. They were as puzzled as I was when I told them about Alice in the bathroom, they smiled when I talked about Edward talking to me and finding out Alice and him were twins. When it got the point I had to tell them about the scent they turned shocked. Emmet even had his mouth open from surprise, if I hadn't felt so stressed, I would have laughed at their expressions.
I finished and the silence that followed was eerie. Vampires could usually sit still for hours but I had been around humans so long that I started to fidget, picking at my manicured nails.
I thought about how I had met Emmet and Rose, it had been a strange experience.
Carlisle had changed them both, about ten years apart from each other.
I had found Rose, the year had been 1917. She had been having a fight with her fiancé, Royce; it would have blown over, had they not been standing next to a cliff. Royce had gotten mad when Rose admitted she didn't love him. He had given her a hard shove and she toppled over the edge. Royce had taken one look at her body at the bottom of the cliff and had taken off.
I had been hunting with Jasper. We had just discovered a pack of elk when we heard a high pitch scream, Rosalie's. We were there in seconds, she was in a bad way, it looked like a broken back, but her heart was still beating... barely.
Jasper had wanted to leave her, but I had been brought up to care for all things, I couldn't leave her. Since she was unconscious I was able to swiftly bite her and hide her in the woods before she could wake up. I watched over her for three days until her transformation was over. Jasper went home to get Carlisle a few hours before Rosalie was finished. By this time her back was completely healed, along with all the other injuries she had suffered. Carlisle arrived and told her what she was and I took her hunting. She adapted to the animal diet quickly and she moved in with us, and we all liked her instantly, even Jasper, who had wanted to leave her dead.
Emmet's story was quite different. He had been walking home one night from work in 1928. He had passes a group of men who had a bit too much to drink. One of these men had seen Emmet's look of disgust and had gotten violent, that man had been the one to throw the first punch. Emmet was a gentleman so didn't know any fighting skills, and there were too many of them, so he couldn't fight back.
They had left him, thinking he was dead, he wasn't. Emmet lay there, begging for death to come, he was in so much pain. He couldn't even call out for help, it hurt too much.
Rosalie found him like that. She saw his face, twisted in agony. It was the face that made the decision for her. She carried him to Carlisle, begging him to change Emmet, for her. Rosalie fell in love with Emmet in just a few days, and was giddy when she found out that Emmet loved her back. They had been together ever since. Emmet became another part of our family, he also became the joker, in the most awful scenario, he would always find something to joke about.
A few years ago, Emmet and Rosalie decided to get their own home, they made sure it was less than a day away from Esme so she wouldn't be too far away from them; she liked to have all her family close by.
Back in Alaska, the silence dragged on, I thought it would never end.
Finally, Rosalie stood up and walked to the phone; Emmet came and sat down beside me.
'How bad was it, the scent? He asked. He was recovering from his shock but he still wasn't back to jokes yet. I took advantage of the time I had with serious Emmet. I could just hear Rose on the phone behind us.
'It was like... I don't know... imagine you saw a million Rosalie's in front of you, but imagine it like a smell, how much you would want it. Then times it by a butt load.' I added the end bit with a smile that came out as a grimace.
Emmet's eyes widened. 'Wow... That inviting hey?' His voice had a hint of his joking attitude in it so I smacked his shoulder.
Just then Rose came back through talking on the phone.
'...right here... Yes she's absolutely fine, just a bit shaken...'
I didn't need to try and hear the other end of the line to know it was Esme, I held out my hand.
'Hi Esme, I'm here.' I said, scared of her reaction.
'Bella!' Esme practically screamed down the phone. 'Thank god your alright, I was going frantic!
I sighed for what seemed like the millionth time. By the time I was done on the phone, Em and Rose were going to have one heck of phone bill.